Help Me LJ! Help me to understand!!

[seraphcelene]

Last night I watched Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader.

Here's the question that made me furious last night and is continuing to drive me UP the wall.


How many states border the Pacific Ocean?



5: Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, and Hawaii

WTF?!?!?!?
Hawaii is IN the Pacific. I do not understand how an ISLAND. A land mass SURROUNDED by a body of water can BORDER the water that surrounds it!! And we're not talking like Catalina Island or something RIGHT off the coast. We're talking about an island that sits nearly halfway across the Pacific Ocean. It's almost in the g-damn middle. Now if they had asked "What states have borders ON the Pacific Ocean?" that would have been a different kind of question entirely.

And the thing is that all the little fifth grade kids got it right and 5 was announced as the correct answer and I don't understand!

Please help me to understand!!



I spork you question. I spork you right in the middle of your misleading eyeball.

Comments

[lettered.livejournal.com]

What're you doing watching that? *makes fun of you*

but no really, that's a hateful question. Also smelly. However, if you're talking political borders, Hawaii is considered a border of the US. I think?
However, the question was not worded to refer to *USA'S* borders, and actually what it *is* asking makes no logical sense.

[seraphcelene]

I know, right ... I never realized how much random, busy-making stuff they teach kids.

See. You See my point. If the question was How Many States Have Borders on the Pacific Ocean then I could understand the answer being five. But considering the question that was asked I don't understand how the answer is five.

I really, really do not like that question.